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pontefact cakes
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Christine | Report | 3 Jan 2004 02:34 |
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just nothing about nothing but just having a conversation the other day just wondered if you can still get pontefact cakes in england if anybody had them when they were little think thats how you spelt it chris |
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June | Report | 3 Jan 2004 02:55 |
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Yes you can still get them, my last lot came from Asda |
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Unknown | Report | 3 Jan 2004 08:16 |
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hiya - I live near Pontefract :-) and they are lovely |
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Anna | Report | 3 Jan 2004 09:58 |
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Try www.aquaterof.co.uk!!! delicious Anna |
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Anna | Report | 3 Jan 2004 09:59 |
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Sorry I'll spell it write www(.)aquaterof(.)co(.)uk |
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Christine | Report | 3 Jan 2004 22:55 |
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thanks for the replies i can taste them now can't get on to that website . for got to say i'm in australia chris |
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Judy | Report | 3 Jan 2004 23:31 |
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Christine....sent you an e-mail.....Judy |
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Brenda | Report | 4 Jan 2004 09:31 |
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I live in Australia and found potefact cakes in a Chocolate Box shop where they sell British lollies,they are so expensive,What is the name of another sweet which is flat and tasted like marzipan toffee. Brenda in Australia |
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BobClayton | Report | 4 Jan 2004 17:23 |
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I live about three miles from Pontefract which was the home of liquorice because of its clay earth which the bushes liked. Sadly I dont think most of the Pontefract cakes produced today contain any liquorice at all. It's all chemicals. Bob |
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Debbi | Report | 4 Jan 2004 17:52 |
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When I was little they were mine and my dads favorites.We had a Dutch couple satying with us who became friends of my parents and bought their own type of pontifract cakes when they vistited once.......yukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.......Dutch liqourice has SALT lots of salt in it. Still remember tasting it as I type Debbi |
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Unknown | Report | 6 Jan 2004 20:43 |
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brenda in Aus - they are called yorkshire tea cakes :-) |
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Brenda | Report | 8 Jan 2004 00:55 |
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Thanks She Wray,can you still get Yorkshire Teacakes. Brenda in Australia |
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Claire in Lincs | Report | 8 Jan 2004 07:11 |
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She,,,are the Yorkshire Tecakes small round brown things with sugar on the top,,,? |
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Unknown | Report | 8 Jan 2004 09:20 |
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yes Claire and Brenda - have some sitting here as we speak - bought them in the Shambles in York but am sure you can get them in the market house here in Wakefield :-) |
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